Boning

//ˈboʊnɪŋ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    The arrangement of bones in a corset. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    An act of sexual intercourse. countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar

    "How is it possible that somebody who looks like Thinny can have sex with so many women? Where are all these girls out there begging for bonings in cars?"

  4. 4
    Bone structure. countable, uncountable

    "She had substantial boning and a wider pelvic girdle than our larger bitch."

  5. 5
    The fertilization of a field with bone meal. countable, uncountable

    "The long-continued good result of the bonings of the Cheshire farmers, effects which are said to be perceivable during the continuance of a lease, demonstrates that at least one known fertilizer is useful not merely for a season; and, moreover, as the enlightened Cheshire landlords have been long wont even to aid their tenantry in the requisite outlay for the bones, this further seems to prove that the land is not finally rendered less valuable by the more bountiful, and consequently more exhausting crops of grass that it is thus enabled to produce."

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  1. 6
    The process or result of leveling using a boning rod. countable, uncountable

    "Boning is performed with boning rods, which exactly resemble T squares, as shown in fig 1 (page 265)."

  2. 7
    Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone. countable, uncountable

    "The practice of 'boning' was particularly discouraged. Mrs Duncan Kemp remembered that on one occasion the white stockmen on her father's station had tied up an Aboriginal man and soundly beaten him after he had ignored repeated warnings about his 'boning' activities."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of bone form-of, gerund, participle, present

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